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Jack Trades posted:My rats were never interested in carrots at all but I've heard that rats usually really like them. Yeah they will fight hardcore for a chunk o' carrot.
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this site doesn't deserve my cute pet pics
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Couple of weeks in and the boys are settling in to a routine. Wake up for fresh water. Fight. Eat. Go back to bed. Wake up in the afternoon. Throw bedding about the place. Drink. Fight. Spend a couple of minutes overcoming their anxiety so they can leave the cage and explore my jumper, then sprint back in. Fight. Sleep. Wake up for fresh food and do rat things until the morning. Still only one of them has learned what the wheel is for and doesn't use it much yet. But they're small enough that they seem to enjoy sprinting around the cage.
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Feb 22, 2018 10:06
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Jaded Burnout posted:Couple of weeks in and the boys are settling in to a routine. Pretty much. I have 5, and the best part about having 5 rats is giving them 2 large treats and watching them roll pickpocket all goddamn day. Also: IT Thread rat crew grows!
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Feb 22, 2018 20:35
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Paladine_PSoT posted:Pretty much. I have 5, and the best part about having 5 rats is giving them 2 large treats and watching them roll pickpocket all goddamn day. I'm too nice, there's two pairs a few weeks apart and the smaller ones wouldn't stand a chance, so I individually hand them appropriately sized chunks. I'm ticking all the new-rat-owner boxes now as I sit worried by the amount they're sneezing. Paladine_PSoT posted:Also: IT Thread rat crew grows! 
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Feb 22, 2018 20:49
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I love rats so much.
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Feb 23, 2018 08:11
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Rats are cool and good.
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Feb 23, 2018 11:19
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Scootsworth disagrees and would rather other rats just went away and stopped competing for attention. 
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Feb 23, 2018 11:24
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Oh my god that's adorable. Also, Scootsworth is a badass name.
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Feb 23, 2018 12:14
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Scootsworth disagrees and would rather other rats just went away and stopped competing for attention. Quality kids.  Especially the massive fuzzbutt on the right.
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The Snoo posted:I'm sure this has been asked a million times but what does a nakey rat feel like? and also why do they look so wrinkly in comparison to furry ones Balls. They feel like balls. (Ok they only feel a little bit like that. They are very warm and sweet :3)
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OK I'm actually worried about my rats sneezing now. They've been here a couple of weeks. During the first week one of them was a bit sneezy, but I put it down to new home syndrome. Then one day last week with no environment changes that I know of, all of them started sneezing the same morning, and they haven't stopped since. I thought it might be dust from their food sitting on the wood boards I was using as flooring. So I started cleaning it every day, no dice. A couple of days ago I took the whole lot out and replaced it with freshly washed (with no detergent) fleece and I've been taking that fleece out and clearing everything off it twice a day. If anything they're sneezing more now, it's every few seconds. Help?
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Feb 25, 2018 09:40
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Jaded Burnout posted:OK I'm actually worried about my rats sneezing now. I unfortunately don't know enough to be of any great help here, especially since it's really difficult to diagnose this sort of thing, but if the sneezing keeps being a consistent thing for more than a couple of days then I highly recommend taking them to a vet if possible. Respiratory issues in rats are not to be taken lightly. Better safe than sorry. Hopefully your ratkids will be alright.
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Feb 26, 2018 01:38
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My ratkids are going to have to go back to the vet and hopefully get some Amoxy instead of Doxy this time. 
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Feb 26, 2018 02:33
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Me thinking about rats at all times.
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Does anyone have any good suggestions for foraging setups for ratties? My guys love digging for their food, and my only ideas so far have been to use small cardboard jewelry boxes and toilet paper rolls (stuffed with paper towels on either end with the sides folded over). It is also funny watching them drag around a stuffed tube they know has food in it, and fighting over it. 
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Jack Trades posted:I unfortunately don't know enough to be of any great help here, especially since it's really difficult to diagnose this sort of thing, but if the sneezing keeps being a consistent thing for more than a couple of days then I highly recommend taking them to a vet if possible. I continued trying various ways to help them out to no avail and one was getting rougher, so I took them to the vet. Suspected myco flareup, delayed onset from moving home stress. I have the tiniest tube of ratibiotics and an even tinier syringe to measure it out with.
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best of luck with medicating and recovering! one of my girls had a sinus problem when we brought them home, which I thought was just new home sneezes, and it got bad so fast. she recovered really well and she's the one who had a mammary tumor removed last december, as well, and she's the more active, playful (and honestly intelligent) one, lmao we taught her how to pull up a rope recently  so good. so cuteSkutter posted:Does anyone have any good suggestions for foraging setups for ratties? My guys love digging for their food, and my only ideas so far have been to use small cardboard jewelry boxes and toilet paper rolls (stuffed with paper towels on either end with the sides folded over). It is also funny watching them drag around a stuffed tube they know has food in it, and fighting over it. I have a suet holder that I would stuff with kale and they'd enjoy digging it out of there. mine get really violent with toilet paper rolls when they're stuffed with treats so I don't do that anymore D: even when I'm like LOOK I MADE TWO SEPARATE ONES they fight over one and get their heads stuck wrapping the treats in a square of toilet paper and then wrapping that in more toilet paper is fun too! I buy 69¢ for 4 rolls toilet paper for them to shred and nest with.  I just purchased a bunch of stuff from drs foster and smith and picked up a plastic foraging ball for my girls. I'll let the yall know how well it works for them! it'd basically be the same thing with stuffing it full of paper towels/tp/streamers. snoo fucked around with this message at 18:07 on Feb 28, 2018 |
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this site doesn't deserve my cute pet pics
Guy Mann fucked around with this message at 13:32 on Feb 24, 2019 |
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Mar 4, 2018 17:12
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 That's totally ratical!
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They really do grip your heart, don't they. I've only had these little bastards 3 weeks and it's killing me that one of them is getting sicker.
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this site doesn't deserve my cute pet pics
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Mar 5, 2018 04:06
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Guy Mann posted:rat_owner.svg It's beautiful.
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2/10 loss edit
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"We'll get a bigger cage!" we thought. "It'll be just the right size for three rats!" we thought. "We'll get one with wheels so it'll be really handy to move around the flat!" we thought.  We were nearly right.
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Kuule hain nussivan posted:"We'll get a bigger cage!" we thought. 7/10 for the rat cage kerfuffle, 12/10 for the cat sleeping on the pig slippers.
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Dual critter nations are the ultimate cages. All rat managers should get them when they level up from hobbiest to enthusiast* *loving inevitable
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Aww, I love those fuzzy faces.
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I'm looking forward to the day when they let me snuggle them.
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Nice Animorphs cover.
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Phantasium posted:Nice Animorphs cover. That made me laugh. Man, it would suck if all you did was become slightly older and a different colour.
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"Hmm. One of my cage mates appears to be using my head as a mattress... Maybe I should do something about that? ...nah."
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Rats went back to the vet after their 2 weeks of antibiotics. They're all improved, one is staying on them for another two weeks at a higher dose (because they've doubled in size in those 2 weeks).
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Jaded Burnout posted:Rats went back to the vet after their 2 weeks of antibiotics. They're all improved, one is staying on them for another two weeks at a higher dose (because they've doubled in size in those 2 weeks). Sounds good. I hope your ratkids get well soon.
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One of my rats is going to give me a heart attack. I try to leave at least one of the cage doors open when I'm around so they can explore, but if I take my eyes off this one guy he climbs up the outside of the cage (more than a metre tall) and then panics because he can't get down, eventually trying something stupid and nearly getting injured. If I spot this and gently coax him back down safely, he's back up again a couple of minutes later.
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Welcome to the experience of having baby rats. They will absolutely climb everything and get themselves stuck everywhere. Hell, I've seen rat babies literally climb the walls.
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